Are you essentially saying that your mouse/touchpad doesn't work? If so, then that's what you have to address. If it's a touchpad, then, most probably, it's a Synaptics touchpad and you can use synclient from a terminal to view and adjust its settings. Once we know what your pointing device (and computer make and model) is, there are several command line utilities like lspci and lsusb that will give us more information as to what the problem might be.
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JoeOct 3 '12 at 19:41